Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1887-07-21
STYLISH MILLINERY.
Pretty Bonnets and Moderately Small
Hats Coming Into Fashion.


Hats Coming Into Fashion.
Although in general view the mil
linery on exhibition in the retail houses
of the trade repeated the styles in the
shapes of bonnets and hats, materials
and trimmings, there were certain
fancies and features observable that
were notvery conspicuous in the earlier
importations.
AS a rule, the bonnets are small,
poke occasionally giving variety to the
headdress for out of doors wear, while
the large hats seem somewhat larger
in the circumference of the brim than
the hats of the last season and the
crowns a trife less tall, the larger
shapes varied by turbans and toques.
In the bonnets the shapes which obtain
are variations of the little French cot
tage bonnets, the English capote and
the Manon, the last a special favorite
with young ladies, and for wear in Wis
iting toilets.
The large hat which seems at present
in favor is that with the moderately
tall, slightly tapering crown, and the
brim very narrow, or forming only
shallow scallop at the base of the
crown, widening out to about two
inches at the right side, projected at
the front, and widening out until al
most as broad as the crown is tall, and
curved up at the left side. A rival to
this particular shape has a similar
crown (or the same CROWN, with the
brim wider at the right side and curved
up at each side.
New shapes in turbans have me-
dium tall, slightly tapering crown, and
the round or dome shaped crown, and
the brim wide and pressed up quite
closely all around, though the shapes
in turbans are frequently lost or mega
tived by the drapery, which smothers
the crown completely and gives the
hat an entirely different aspect.
Pretty, small bonnets with drapery of
plated taffetas, surah and gauze, velvet
over the crown, have the brim of plain
velvet, completed by a bow ofsome one
or two of the most distinctive or the
grounding colors in the plaid, sustain
ing heron aigrette to match, a bunch
of currants or Strawberries, or clus-
ter of zinnias, verbenas or other flowers
of similar character. There is, indeed,
for this season fureur for mixtures of
high colors; and varying the fancies
alluded to are the hats and bonnets
made of the braids woven in intermiX-
lures of colors These braids have
been produced in great qualities, and
form conspicuous factor in milinary.
Hats made of them are either self
faced in the turning of the work of
making on the outside, or are faced
with velvet, the trimming consisting
of a band of ribbon or velvet of the
darkest color in the braid around the
crown, completed by bows set at the
left of the front, made of ribbons in all
the cJlors that are introduced in the
braid bunch of ostrich tips posed on
the edge of the crown, the tips in two
or three shades of color, or shaded in
dyeing, in some models being supple
mentary.
The bonnets of the braids in miXeC
colors are faced with velvet and trim.
med with a bow made of ribbons il
two distinctive colors, or in all the col
ors seen in the braid, completed by
strings of ribbon in the darkest color
employed.
The bows which trim hats when o
the several colors understood are gen
orally of ribbon about three inche
wide, and made of fiat butterfly fash
ION, and massed in a great cluster a
the left of the front or at che left side
while the bows are still stiff and up.
right on bonnets, formed of loops o
the several colors. 1t is scarcely neces
sary to say, after what has been said
that ribbon bows are again distin
gushing feature in millinery garni
: ttt;rcs. NJ 7. Herald